Wave Issue 0302 1/24/03 Article 2-01

***NVIDIA Releases Quadro FX Series Graphics Cards
(January 21)

NVIDIA Corporation today introduced the NVIDIA Quadro FX series
of workstation graphics solutions, aimed at the professional
CAD/CAM and digital content creation markets. The NVIDIA Quadro
FX series includes the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 and NVIDIA Quadro FX
1000 graphics solutions, both of which combine 128-bit floating
point precision with an eight pipeline, fully programmable
graphics engine.

The new product family features three parallel vertex engines
with an on-chip vertex cache, eight fully programmable pixel
pipelines, and a new line engine coupled to a high speed DDR2
memory interface. NVIDIA stated that the Quadro FX family
achieves 3D graphics performance up to five times faster than the
company's previous generation products. The Quadro FX family
features full scene antialiasing (FSAA) with support for
resolutions up to 3840x2400 QUXGA.

Independent software vendors (ISVs) have designed applications to
take advantage of the NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture, by enabling
sophisticated real-time shaders to simulate a range of physical
characteristics, including lighting effects and even physical
surface properties--which can be combined and modified on-the-
fly.

Like all NVIDIA Quadro products, the Quadro FX line features
certification support for a number of CAD, DCC, and visualization
applications. NVIDIA Quadro FX products also utilize the NVIDIA
Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) a set of backward and forward,
top to bottom compatible graphics drivers. All NVIDIA Quadro FX
products feature NVIDIA's nView multi-display and OpenGL quad-
buffered stereo capability.

NVIDIA's new workstation graphics solutions, the NVIDIA Quadro FX
2000 and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000, are in volume production now
and will be available from channel OEMs and distributors in early
February.

www.nvidia.com